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Show .' i Idaho Prison Holds Many Washington. National prohibition is not emptying the jails of Idaho ; on the contrary, the census bureau finds more people incarcerated in the jails and prisons of Idaho this year than were confined five years ago. The total number confined on July 1, 3922, was fil 4, as compared with 401 on July 1, 1917. These figures include prisoners awaiting trial and persons held as witnesses, as well as prisoners prison-ers serving sentence. Of the total for 1922, 279 were reported for the state penitentiary, five criminal insane for the state insane asylum, 210 for twenty-nine county jails and eleven for four cities. |